Swoon 039 - March 29, 2004

Phauna - Need Rain (Play Records)
Jackmate - A Love Supreme In Mind (Resopal-Schallware)
Radioactive Man - Radio Eins (Rotters Golf Club)
Bochum Welt - Mannequin (Device)
Beef Terminal - Lines Of Division (Noise Factory)
Millimetrik - L'abondance d'une Minorite (Statik)
K.I.A. - Dubmarine (Neuphoria)
Casino vs. Japan - Map Happy (Attack Nine)
Galerie Stratique - Train Sous La Pluie (Statik)
Abfahrt Hinwil - Planquadrat (Toytronic)
Squarepusher - Iambic 9 Poetry (Warp)
Lego Feet - Keyop (Skam)
Air Liquide - Geigerzaehler
Blue Haze - Messy Textures
Michael Mayer- Twin Peaks (Kreisel)
Wintersun - Can't Stand the Pain
Aphasia - Acapulco (Hooj)
Manual - Burn (Darla)
Rechenzentrum - Tiefenscharfe (Mille Plateaux)
Andrew Duke - Shuffle (Cognition)
Squarepusher - Every Day I Love (Warp)

Swoon 038 - March 22, 2004

AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3 Track 1 (Rephlex)
Kid Spatula - Kid Spatulet (Planet mu)
Casino vs. Japan - Rouge (Wobblyhead)
Slam - Narco Tourists (Soma)
Gescom - TR2A (Skam)
Jega - Evil Lee Kirtcele (Skam)
Squarepusher - Menelec (Warp)
Millimetrik - Dans La Profondeur, Tout S'Eclaircit (Statik)
Pub - Film (Ampoule)
Basic Sound Unit - Whateva (Do Right!)
The Notwist - Red Room (Domino)
Dub Taylor - Before You Go (Force Tracks)
Akufen - Tournee 3
Blue Haze - How To Escape Yourself
Habersham & Numinous - Leaving Tifton
Emrock vs. T William - Opus (Sounds Good)
New Order - Blue Monday (Cass mix)
Jamez - Levitate (Future Groove)
Phauna - Notion of Love (Play Records)
Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy - The Song of Amergin (4AD)

Swoon 037 - March 15, 2004

Neotropic - Under Violent Objects (Ntone)
Millsart - Asteroid (Music Man)
Holy Garage - Surprised (Isolee mix) (Playhouse)
Amon Tobin - Sordid (Ninja Tune)
Meaty Ogre - Track 3 (Galapagos)
Pest(e) - Hovercraft (Suction)
Millimetrik - Regards Infideles (Statik)
Sqarepusher - Ultravisitor (Warp)
K.I.A. - Goa-Di (Neuphoria)
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3 - Track 4 (Rephlex)
Andrew Duke - Britlur (Cognition)
Dope on Plastic - Wave Dub
Eddie Richards - Gateway (Jay Tripwire mix)
Bjork - Kindness Kind (Dislokated Impostors mix)
Syntax - Bliss (Felix da Housecat mix)
Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Infusion mix) (Marine Parade)
Emrock vs. T. William - Disko 3000 (Sounds Good)
Coldplay - Clocks (Gabriel and Dresden bootleg mix)
Jello - Conokut (Peacefrog)
Orbital - Otono (ffrr)
Neotropic - Saucer Song (Ntone)

Swoon 036 - March 8, 2004

Multiplex - Caps Lock (Toytronic)
Plaid - Crumax Rins (Warp)
Amon Tobin - Precursor (Ninja Tune)
Squarepusher - District Line II (Warp)
Krell - Planete Interdite (Source)
Arovane - Tabl F (DIN)
DJ Serious - The Battle (Do Right!)
The KLF - The White Room (Arista)
Sasha - Magnetic North (Thrive)
Millimetrik - Les Techniques Devenues Folles (Statik)
King Unique - Sugahigh (JBO)
Bedrock - Emerald (Bedrock)
Slacker - A Million Dreams (Jukebox in the Sky)
Thick Dick - Tweekin' (Sondos)
F2 - Dominica (Bellboy)
Luomo - Class (Force Tracks)
Sam Mollison - Words (Medway mix) (First in Flight)
Spooky - Belong (Bedrock)
Salome & Ives - Mystic Roya (Bedrock)
Andrew Duke - Progress (Cognition)

I just finished reading Derek Lundy's Godforsaken Sea. It was very enjoyable. Imagine 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer, but this time without the amateurs, and everybody's sailing boats instead of climbing moutains. The book is about the Vendee Globe race, which begins and ends at the same port in France. Sailors sail south to Antarctica, race around it, and back to France. It takes about 110-150 days, depending on how often boats break down, flip over, or even sink. Other factors include lack of sleep, frostbite, crashing into icebergs, fishing boats, pleasure ships and cargo ships, and launching rescues for other sailors in the ocean. If it sounds tough, it's worse than that. The seas of the Southern Ocean are the worst in the world: 50-foot waves, subzero temperatures and winds that routinely push 100 kilometers an hour.

Without spoiling the ending too much, one sailor dies, another loses a finger, several boats are lost, another operates on his own infected elbow, several heroic rescue attempts succeed and fail, and remember, this isn't just a challenge to yourself, it's an actual race, with only one winner.

Swoon 035 - March 1, 2004

Freeform - untitled (MASK 100)
Abfahrt Hinwil - Bumperstufe 2 (Toytronic)
Jello - O'verb (Peacefrog)
Andrew Duke - Cement (Cognition)
Soft Cell - Memorabilia Live (Cooking Vinyl)
Model 500 - No UFO's (R&S)
The Advent - Inn Touch (Tresor)
Purform - Knowledge of Knowledge (Orange)
Underworld - Moaner (JBO)
Andro - Allnighter
Sidekick - Respond
LSG - Netherworld (Moshic mix)
Trancesetters - Secrets of Meditation (Hallucinogenic Zoom mix)
Orlando Voorn - Aguila (Underground Resistance)
Matthew Dekay - Higher Thoughts
Laidback Luke - Concrete on Vinyl
Luke Chable and Jono Fernandez - Before You Break On Me
Age of Love - Age of Love (Wrecked Angle mix)
The Notwist - Neon Golden (Console mix) (Domino)
Millimetrik - Le Present qui n'a pas de Futur (Statik)